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The one thing ai should be good at, replacing Siri style assistants for creating calendar events, timers, and sending texts hands free is still absent on all major platforms.
We had working digital assistants since more than a decade ago.
Siri, Google Assistant, and even jankier offerings like Cortana and S Voice were perfectly fine at creating calendar events, timers, and diction typing.
The LLMs are actively worse, and where is this more apparent than with Google Maps. If you enable Gemini, Google Assistant is pseudo-disabled in a limbo state, and you are left with no assistant at all for Google Maps.
What if it gets it wrong though? Cause it’s all guess work.
I guess ML could be used for speech to text and then have it read it back to you, I still think you can probably do that rather easily with good old algorithms.
The one thing ai should be good at, replacing Siri style assistants for creating calendar events, timers, and sending texts hands free is still absent on all major platforms.
If I cant find my phone, I say “ok Google, where’s my phone.” It replies “I cant do that,” and then I can hear where it is.
I also change outlets and light switches hot so I can confirm no shorts are made that will trip the breaker when Im done.
Your epitaph will read “Didn’t trip the breaker”
We had working digital assistants since more than a decade ago.
Siri, Google Assistant, and even jankier offerings like Cortana and S Voice were perfectly fine at creating calendar events, timers, and diction typing.
The LLMs are actively worse, and where is this more apparent than with Google Maps. If you enable Gemini, Google Assistant is pseudo-disabled in a limbo state, and you are left with no assistant at all for Google Maps.
What if it gets it wrong though? Cause it’s all guess work.
I guess ML could be used for speech to text and then have it read it back to you, I still think you can probably do that rather easily with good old algorithms.
LLMs are actually quite good at taking free form content and turning it into structured content.
A year ago they were not good for this, but I can run small models locally now which do reliably generate json from content.
I think you would have to benchmark both approaches but the old way made mistakes too.